Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 7,182 stores from 3,460 retail and consumer chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Burlington grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers and Five Below.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
3,460
Tracked stores
7,182
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Burlington and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Burlington logo Burlington ▲4 +19.3%
2 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲9 +18.2%
3 F Five Below logo Five Below ▲7 +16.1%
4 V Value Village logo Value Village ▲5 +15.2%
5 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲9 +13.8%
6 H H Mart logo H Mart ▲7 +13.2%
7 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble ▲5 +12.5%
8 R Restaurant Depot logo Restaurant Depot ▲3 +10.8%
9 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲4 +10.5%
10 D Dollar Tree logo Dollar Tree ▲8 +9.6%
11 R Residence Inn logo Residence Inn ▲4 +9.0%
12 N Newbury Comics logo Newbury Comics ▲4 +8.8%
13 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲3 +7.9%
14 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲4 +7.1%
15 M Michaels logo Michaels ▲1 +7.0%

Store footprint

Store map

7,182 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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